Ninasusan

Happiness gently landed on my shoulders

June 2008

  • This endless week is just about over – I have to come in tonight from 7p to 11p and then I”m off for 4..we are going to try to camp/boat over our weekend which will start on Sunday.Today is Aunt Frances’ 92nd birthday.  She’s out of the hospital and home again with her sister/my mother.  Read more

  • I’m working overtime this week so feel kind of numb…Monday night I went to the annual meeting of the Jasper County Animal Rescue League…I’ve been asked to fill a position on the board…it will be an appointed position which has to be approved by the county board of supervisors..so they told me that I’m on Read more

  • 80 degrees and sunshine…today is the big indy car race at the Iowa Speedway…should be about 40,000 attendees.  I worked it last year..one of the things that sent me scurrying off to midnights…that and weather and the cell phone heros that call everything in on the interstate including the 2 day old accident wrapped in Read more

  • Cat Nap

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  • I never shared a cup of coffee with him – that he knew about, anyway – from the “big box” he never talked AT me, we discussed politics together….I always thought him to be a really nice guy.  I already told you about his conversation with Carl about the Miami Dolphins and my other close contact Read more

  • Marley is in love

    Due to my angle, these are not going to be those pictures that say it all ( although that is one nice crock hanging from my foot) …..Christa and Brett brought little Daisy to the cookout/bonfire yesterday.  Brett wanted Daisy to be subjected to the pack mentality – if you don’t know about Cesar the Dog Whisperer, Read more

  • Tim Russert

    Reference yesterday’s entry..thanks for the comments you left..isn’t it wierd that most of us have never met face to face but we are xanga friends and still get to know each other.  I think it is because we get our feelings out and most of us are girls in different levels of emotional health but Read more

  • 92 year old Aunt Frances (lives with 90 year old mother next door) called me a little after 1am yesterday morning, said she was in terrible pain and I needed to come over.  How many times this has happened, I can’t begin to explain..grrrrr.  When I got there, Aunt Frances asked me to feel her Read more

  • Back in April, I handled a 911 call that made my blood run cold … it was the call of a 24 year old woman who had been kidnapped and held against her will… http://weblog.xanga.com/Ninasusan/650792602/therapy.html . This girl had the presence of mind to call me on 911 and then speak to me in code Read more

  • It is Sunday night…what a week it has been…I’m betting the humidity today didn’t help those with respiratory problems…then it rained tonight and we had some severe weather.  We went to Ryan and Jenny’s for supper.  Carl and Jane were there too.  We all kind of did our own thing.  We had a group watching Read more